By sharing infrastructure and resources across a number of users, public clouds are known for flexibility, scalability and low-cost utility pricing. Private clouds, in contrast, are considered to have a higher cost of ownership due to required hardware, maintenance and management. Most would agree that the ideal cloud solution depends on your data, and how much security, privacy, and control are needed. Remember, there may be some compliance standards for sensitive data that cannot be met by public clouds.
Workload is also an important attribute of data that should influence your decision. Big data projects depend on clusters and a mix of software stacks; these run for a long time, unlike traditional, bursty Web applications for which public clouds were designed. This fundamental difference makes onboarding big data projects in the public cloud complex and time-consuming. Additionally, the pay-as-you-go public cloud pricing model becomes prohibitively expensive for high volume, data-heavy processing and analytics. Development teams often spend more time reluctantly playing the role of IT admins and less time developing software. This alone dissolves the public cloud’s promise of productivity in software development.
Here at Kodiak Data, we’ve developed a virtual infrastructure that provides the best of both worlds. Our data-optimized private clouds deliver on the promise of the public cloud’s agility, with even greater simplicity and flexibility combined with much lower costs.
Our top three reasons (plus a bonus!) to use private clouds for Big Data:
- Easier – simple setup and deployment of big data clusters within minutes
- Flexible – infrastructure and services available on-prem or hosted, with hybrid connectivity to public cloud
- Cost-effective – up to 5X lower cost compared to public clouds and bare metal
- High performance – up to 5X faster in independent benchmarks than AWS or bare metal
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